Label: NEOS SACD 10919
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS (*1953) – WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE
Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich … for percussion and ensemble (1999)
… aus freier Lust … verbunden … for bass flute, bass clarinet and two percussions (1994/95/96)
… und … for chamber ensemble and electronics (2008, First version)
Works commissioned by Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung for the Collegium Novum Zürich

Collegium Novum Zürich/Enno Poppe

Martin Lorenz, percussion

EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR, live electronics

Michael Acker & Gregorio Karman, sound direction & music computing; Annesley Black, assistant
Georg Friedrich Haas writes music that is strongly hypnotic. A simple title like … und … (… and …) forces together the ensemble and electronics, the microtones and the tempered system, this in a unique way. The result – at the premiere in September 2008 – are 27 minutes of intensely exciting play-ing, with the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of the SWR and the Collegium Novum Zürich under Enno Poppe. These sounds impinge on the ear, and find their corollary in a vision no less intense: Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich … (Who heard me when I cried…), with the percussion soloist Martin Lorenz. Other completely different but also fervent notions held by the composer Haas are more redolent of a piece for merely solo voices, which … aus freier Lust … verbunden … (… arising out of free volition … shall join …), and are able to – here for example in the chamber music quartet-intermezzo.